Week 3 - Harris & Hofer Activity Types

Instructional Planning Activity Types Chart

Make sure you have read the article for this week by Harris and Hofer! For this assignment you will think about an activity that you do in your class and consider some technologies that may support that activity in a different way based on your TPACK understanding. Some examples are provided below in different styles, you can decide how you will enter your contribution to the knowledge being constructed in the chart!

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Participant Name	Activity Type	Brief Description	Possible Technologies
Cheryl Ward	Listen to Audio	Students listen to recordings of speeches, music, radio broadcasts, oral histories, and lectures; digital or non-digital	Podcasts (“Great Speeches in History,” etc.), Audacity, Garageband, Odeo, Evoca, Podcast People
Teacher	Peer Feedback	In my class students give each other peer feedback on a writing project, but it would be great to do this electronically.	I may consider a wiki where they would post their writing and then others could comment sort of non private? Could use Google Docs and peers could comment using the comment option and it would be more private.
Stepahnie Sukie	Create a Presentation	When completing our Mystery Unit, my kids have to show their understanding of a mystery by creating a skit. Use of technology would engage the kids on a completely different level.	Use of Photostory, Moviemaker, iMovie
Brandi Davis	Conducting an Interview	When conducting interviews, there are usually only face-to-face interviews. Sometimes, individuals are called back for two and three interviews and often do not get the job.	Considering the amount of technology an interviewee may have, incorporating imovie or Moviemaker to conduct a preliminary interview would be extremely beneficial.
Rhonda Shure/Ravenna	Creating at Timeline	Students prepare a timeline "Evolution of Computers" dating from 3000 BC with the Abacus, to modern day. They do research on evolving hardware and the creators of same.	New technologies to use, in addition to the powerpoints and web design, would be to include photostory or moviemaker using clips of interviews from some of the famous persons of old such as Grace Hopper who was very instrumental in the development of the ENIAC, modern day such as Steve Wosniak, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates. Use of voice thread, youtube, podcast from interviews would also work well.
Richard Pierce	Recreating History	Students make scripts to re-enact important events in the unit we are studying. Research important names, dates, and quotes to get the needed facts.	Use moviemaker or iMovie
Jonathan Hatch	Listen to Audio	Students listen and watch lessons on youtube or discovery education on a major concept, such as the Pythagorean Theorem that they may have not grasped from my teaching methods.	Youtube, Discovery Education, or Podcasts could be used.
Lorie Marozzi	Group Discussion	During Staff Meetings, teachers in small groups share thoughts and exchange ideas from questions designed to build knowlege of technological options and skills during instruction.	Wikis, blogs, or chats. Some listings from above could be used, too, but I am not familiar with most of them.
Jeffrey Miller	Develop a Knowledge Web	Students can develop a knowldge web on mathematical formulas, or concept ideas, or how to solve a particular problem (only by pointing out common mistakes students make).	Wikis, Blogs, Voice Thread
Christine Lorence	Create a Presentation	At the beginning of the school year, students create a personality presentation of all the things that represent them. (A digital Student Inventory- Getting to Know You!) They can video or take digital pictures of items/favorites at their house including their family and pets to showcase their personalities and life. With the video and pictures, a presentation is created and set to their favorite music.	Flip Video, cameras, imovie, itunes, PowerPoint
Courtney Cahoon	Create a Presentation	At the beginning of the year, students prepare getting-to-know-you questions and interview one another. The interviews will be recorded for a grade.	Audacity, Voice Thread
Yolanda Bradford	Group Dicussion	This was created by my Literacy Coach for staff members to keep in touch over the summer and share ideas and thoughts for the next school year. As I talked to the literacy coach we could use this next school year in our Professional Learning Communities as another way to communicate and share ideas online as well as with teachers at other schools in our district.	Micromobs
Meg Calby	Science Lab or Demonstration	Some labs are too dangerous or costly to do in the classroom, anymore. This could be done by teacher or student chosen examples to show what happens when... This also would be a help to those learners who have problems with physical or reading abilities. I still find that most students will pay attention and learn from good demos and videos, even after all the years I have been teaching.	Utube, VideoStreaming, and Software Simulations
Susan Elliott	Create a Time line and interpret the information	My students are to be able to create and interpret multi-tiered timel ines in Social Studies. Students create Time lines by determining what events will go on the top line and what events will go on the bottom. They then need to create questions that require their classmates to interpret the information they have place on their two lines	Timeliner, PowerPoint, Voice Thread
Kelly Kendrick	Develop a Knowledge Web	As part of an ongoing professional learning community, staff members share their ideas, thoughts, and experiences throughout the year focused on 21st Century Skills, integration of technology, and standards..	PowerPoint, Moodle, Google Docs, Voice Thread
Angie Callaway	Create a Presentation	To begin each year, students create a poster and give a presentation called, "Who Am I". They can use photos, magazines, other crafty materials, etc. Their poster must represent them. However, to integrate 21st century skills, students could create this presentation on the computer through a variety of methods - instead of using a poster, which usually gets thrown away!.	Voice thread, imovie, PowerPoint
Linda Whited	Create a multi-media poem	Students will select a current event from the newspaper with which they feel an emotional connection (humor, sadness, anger, etc.) and compose a poem. After typing and animating the words/lines of the poem, they will illustrate it through scanned photos, downloaded clip art or photos, drawings or altered images, or even video that illustrates the theme or the emotion. Then they will create a musical sound track that supports the mood of the poem, and finally record a voiceover coordinating the animated words of their poem to their spoken words. They will comment on the current by summarizing it for the class, explaining why they chose this article, and the emotion it evoked in them as they read it.	Current newspaper webpage, iMovie, Garage Band (or PowerPoint and Audacity), Internet image search, scanner, Photoshop or Pixlr, video camera, Voice Thread
Catrina Burwell	Create an alternate ending to "A Tell Tale Heart"	As a class, we will read and discuss Edgar Allen Poe's short story "A Tell Tale Heart". Students will then create alternate endings in groups. Each group will create a google doc and share the responsibility of creating an alternate ending. Once they have finished crafting the ending, they will then create a movie for the ending using Microsoft Moviemaker.	Google Docs, Microsoft Moviemaker
Eddie H. Renfroe	Research fresh water problems and solutions	One unit I teach deals with water and its uses. As it is well known, man affects water in nature by our activities which can pollute fresh water and make it unvailable for use. Students will search for problem areas in our community and around the globe. They will research what scientists have proposed to solve and prevent further water pollution.	Google; Google Maps; EPA websites
Shawn Bonfine Ravenna HS	Create an advertsement	Students can design an advertisement, in the fom of a commercial, billboard, web banner, endorsement article, etc., showing the benefits of one process / concept / wa of life over another (ex: cellular respiration vs. fermentation).	Word, Google Images, Powerpoint, Moviemaker, Voicethread, Photoshop, Digital camera
Annette Marino/Stanton Middle School	Math Game	Students can design a math game to review math vocabulary and unit concepts for Geometry including meaurement of various shapes and angles.	Puzzlemaker, Smart Tools, Wordle
Cindy Carpenter/Stanton Middle School	Create a 3 personal dimensional space	Students will display their knowedge of volume and surface area	Second Life
Kathy Scott/Stanton Middle School	Sharing Grant Information	The grant will be shared through professional development	Google Docs, Moodle, Wordle
Chris Vanderneut/Stanton Middle School	Newton's 3 Laws of Motion	Students will work in groups to create visual aids to reinforce Newtons 3 laws of motion and give everybody examples of where they exist in daily life	Voice Threads to present and provide feedback on other students Voicethread
Keidi Ehrgott/Kenmore HS	Thematic Skits	After reading the novel Frankenstein, students will work in groups to create a thematic skit to trace one of the three novel themes of rejection, obession and civilized versus primitive ethics/behaviors.	Use of Photostory, Moviemaker or iMovie
Dolores Whaley RKMS	Student created lesson	Students will work in groups to create a lesson that we are about to cover. They will create their own lesson plan and will be allowed to choose any type of technology that is available. They will teach the class.	Smartboard, projector, Safari Montage, Voicethread, Power Point, Teacher Tube, various internet websites, Word.
Gerald Fox KHS	Comparative study and presentation	Groups of students take a given family of functions and shows how manipulating various parts of an equation changes different parts of the graph and tables, how changing a graph changes its function and table of values. Having looked at different families the groups share and talk about similarities and differences between families	Word, spreadsheets, graphing software, PPT, white board
Joshua Grove Kenmore High Akron	Student Created Promotional Video	Students record video clips of other students working with various froms of technology. Students interview each other about their experiences. Students demonstrate their completed projects and work in the class. Students will take these video, audio and multimedia clips to create a promotional video for the Information Technology	Video cameras, Adobe Flash Primere, Enchore, vairous technology and software used in the course.
Christine Workman kent	math voabulary	I have had students create vocabulary posters. Students define the math term, draw a picture, and provide an example. I post the finished product around the room.	Smartboard,powerpoint,wordle.
Jennifer Garwood/ Stanton MS -Kent	Excel Survey Project	In my 6th grade technology class, I have my students do a project learning the basics of Excel. To make it more fun and interesting to the students, I pick their topic based on their All About Me assignment they first did at the beginning of the class rotation. From there, the students narrow down their topic into four different questions that could be used for survey. They then type out the questions and make a table in Word that the students can print out to ask their family and friends their survey question. The students come back witht their "data" and we put it into Excel, using the basics and also create graphs from their data, they then present it to the class when their project is finished. Even though I already use a lot of technology in this project, thinking about the TPACK framework , I feel that next year I can use even more! It will be much more engaging and fun for the students too!	Computers applications of Word & Excel, podcasts (using Audacity or Garageband), surveys using Google Docs or Survey Monkey (online surveys), and VoiceThreads.
Michelle Warner Spring Hill Junior High Akron	Communication with staff members and professional development	As an administrator I tried to relate 21st century skills as it relates to my work. One simple area I think we could improve on is communicating the daily attendance. I would like to see the absent sheet be an electronic document. Our high school currently does this with google docs. Another area of improvement could be online professional development. I'm not sure who would set this up but the mile assessment addressed it...professional development online, available 24/7.	Google docs. Discussion threads online, online courses
Jen Blankenship - Kent Middle School, Akron	Do a presentation	The 7th graders in my district read a story by O. Henry, titled "After 20 Years." They love the surprise end to the story. I have had students rewrite the story from Jimmy's perspective and share out. I have also thought about having students create the front page of a newspaper, highlighting some of the elements in the story (the capture of "Silky" Bob, a story about why Bob was a wanted man, etc). The "articles" and main points of their rewrite could be presented in a PowerPoint presentation to the rest of the class.	Google docments, Smart Board, PowerPoint, Word, online discussion threads
Meredith Kelley EHS, Akron	Poetry Slam	As part of a longer poetry unit, students will research poetry slams, watch several short videos about poetry slam competitions. At the end of the unit, the students will hold their own poetry slam, following the guidelines of the National Poetry Slam competition. Students will also create multimedia presentations of their slam performances	Voice Thread, Movie Maker, podcasts
Steve D'Attoma Akron East High School	Forensics Project	As part of the forensics unit for a Biology class the students will examine and explore various ways of solving a mock crime scene which will have them search for clues and samples from the scene that will help them solve the mystery of "Who Done It?"	Web exploration, Voice Thread, Wikkipedia, microscopes, virtual web reality view,wordle, flip-cam to record group progress, microsoft word and powerpoint.
Amanda Stidd Perkins MS, Akron	Create a Newspaper/News Magazine	Students take on different roles in newspaper production and create a newspaper for different Spanish-speaking countries, reporting on a variety of modern-day and historical topics. May be done in English or Target Language, depending on level of understanding.	Web exploration, Microsoft Publisher, Wordle, Paint, Google Images, Microsoft Word, Web Translator or translating software.
Rob Bryant Akron East H.S.	Business Attire	During this module students are instructed on the differences between proper business dress such as business formal, business casual and casual. The text book along with my personal experience are the primary resources for this particular module. I would like to expand my resource pool for this section by including actual Human Resource professionals without them having to make a trip to my classroom. They could also use various employees to demonstrate "proper" business attire.	Web Cam, teleconferencing, voice threads, Wikis
Sonja Spencer East High School Akron	Create a Survey	Students can think of a question that they want to ask their classmates that is categorical data, survey their peers and then analyze the data by creating graphs or using a graphing software.	Microsoft word, Profilerpro, Microsoft Excel
Tina Hartong Spring Hill Junior High	Biome Project	Instead of teaching students every biome, students each choose a biome and research it. I have students create power point projects, giving them specific information they need to research, such as climographs, photos, inhabitants... I would like to expand and hae students ad to a voice thread, commenting on how others' biomes are similar or different to theirs.	voice thread, power point, keynote
Paula Ulrich Kent Middle School	Create a game	This could be done for any content area. Students could create a game to review vocabulary or concepts.They could work in teams to create word puzzles, interactive power point games using Smart Board tools, or even games like jeopardy through web software, where they enter their own questions and answers . Then they could take turns facilitating their games to the class as a whole or in small groups as a competition.	Puzzle-maker, Word, Smart Board, Imaging tools or Web design software
Jacqueline Clayton Perkins Middle School	Religion in ancient Egypt	Have students work in groups of 3 or 4 to create a presentation highlighting one aspect of Egyptian religion. Topics could include: gods/goddesses, embalming and mummies, the afterlife.	powerpoints, wordle, flip camera, movie maker
Stephanie Andrews Kenmore HS	Student work portfolio	Throughout the year I would keep important projects students create individually and in groups. Then, as an "End of the Year" project, the students will use a digital camera to take pictures of these projects, themselves, and their group members. They will incorporate these pictures into Microsoft MovieMaker using their choice of (school appropriate) music as a background. Last, the students are to present their Year of Projects, or Portfolio to the class as an oral presentation. Extra Credit for adding voice recordings!	Digital camera, MovieMaker, projector, laptop, possible voice thread
Susan West Roswell Kent MS	Do a presentation	When creating public service announcements, students can make use of technology to create andpresent the announcement. They could create this in the form of a powerpoint, act it out and film/present it, animate it, or act it out (live) and incorporate technology.	imovie, Flip cameras, voicethreads, powerpoint, smartboard, wordle
Sherry Bennington	Teacher, Parent,administrator colaboration/conference	I would like to have staff communicate and collaborate using voicethreads or blogs. Teachers, students and parents could make Nettrekker (or something similar) accounts where they could share websites and communicate with each other.	voicethreads, blogs, various internet websites
Diane Conyers-Rizzo, Ravenna HS	Solutions to an environmental issue	Students can explore ways to deal with an issue like storm water management by researching and discussing this in small groups, and finding creative ways to manage stormwater.	voicethreads or wiki to discuss options; video or digital camaras to record storm water runoff; powerpoint to report to others.
John Dunn Perkins middle school	peer evaluation	I plan to have students do a lot of presenting of their work this year. Being able to have peers respond using a wiki would be great. Students get quick feedback and it make the listeners be thinkers as well.	Wikis, possible blogs